In September 2005, Bain Attwood and Dipesh Chakrabarty convened a group of historians at the Australian National University to discuss the productive effects of the contemporary politics of recognitio

Our current issue brings together a set of independently submitted essays.

Even the most casual news consumers are recurrently confronted with a perplexing mathematics and metaphysics of risk.

The democratic project on a global scale that seemed so promising and was pursued with so much vigor in the final quarter of the twentieth century is now in serious disarray, if not in ruins.